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Outside the keep, the battle was rapidly drawing to a conclusion. There had been a period when the outcome hung in doubt, but that doubt had been eliminated when Salisbury and Alinor's English contingent rode onto the field. When they had come up behind the keep and seen the attack, they had been prey to the same doubts as Llewelyn's party. Decision had come more slowly to them because Salisbury could not enforce his will upon Alinor's men. Sir Henry wished to rush out and join the attackers, sure that they too were bent upon rescuing Alinor's husband. Sir Giles wanted to wait upon the outcome of the battle. Salisbury had convinced them, at last, to move through the woods around to the forepart of the keep, so that they would at least have a chance to determine who was engaged with whom and for what purpose.
By the time they had worked their way around, there was no longer need for doubt. Llewelyn's men, waving Ian's banner and shouting his name and fighting motto, were clearly allies. Swords were drawn, lances set, and Salisbury and Alinor's men thundered out to join the fray. At that point, the battle was over. Those of Gwenwynwyn's men who could, tried to flee, but the party opposing them was now so large that few succeeded. Finally, Lord Gwenwynwyn himself was taken, and the last core of real resistance died away.
There was then the immediate business of the battlefield to see to: prisoners to be collected, stripped, and guarded; the wounded to be gathered up; the dead to be laid out decently so that they could be protected against the carrion feeders who were already gathering in the woods and trees, to descend with the coming of dark. In a great battle, the dead were often left to their fate, the living being fewer than they and sufficiently busy with those for whom hope remained. In this brief action, however, there were not so many dead, and, friend and enemy alike, orders were given that they should be reverently, if hastily, gathered up.

 
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